Cancer
has become our modern day plague, killing 500,000+
Americans each
year. Virtually every American has had some experience with cancer, either
personally or through someone they know. Our countrys war on cancer
officially began in 1971, allocating billions of tax dollars to research,
and here we are more than thirty years later, with cancer diagnoses and death
rates escalating. Whats wrong with this picture? Simply put, the
billions of dollars invested in cancer research have been primarily used
for animal experimentation, a method that is incapable of effectively
treating or curing cancer, or any other disease, in humans.

According to Dr. Richard Klausner of the National Cancer Institute, "The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn't work in humans."

Mice in particular
are used in cancer research, despite their many differences from humans.
Vivisectors preference for mice and other rodents is based not on
scientific principles, but on the fact that they are cheap and easy to
handle. As rodents are not included in the federal Animal Welfare Act
(AWA), researchers do not need to follow any guidelines whatsoever when
experimenting on them, be it providing drinking water or documenting procedures.
This makes it impossible to know how many have been tested on and killed.
Sadly, humans generally feel little compassion for mice and other rodents,
perhaps because we are so different, yet they undeniably feel pain and
fear, making their presence in experiments just as immoral as the use
of any living being.

RESEARCHDOOMED FROM THE STARTMost
cancer experiments on animals consist of either chemically inducing cancer
or assessing a chemicals potential for treating cancer. This methodology
has been the norm for decades, even though it still hasnt accurately
predicted human reactions to chemicals. In both instances, the animals are exposed to enormous
amounts of the test chemicals, much more so than any human would reasonably
be exposed to. By further widening the gaps between species and circumstance,
these invalid experiments are doomed from the start.

Inducing
Cancer in AnimalsIn the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) test to induce cancer, animals are
exposed to a test chemical in huge quantities, given as much as they can
tolerate without dying. Their suffering is unremitting in these experiments,
as many are literally poisoned to death, and the ones kept alive are chronically
wounded and in immense pain, on the verge of dying. The MTD test ignores
the differences between the animals full immersion and immediate
cancer, and the slower, irregular development of human cancers. This test
does not imitate how humans get cancer. Since the starting point of this
test is inaccurate, any results obtained are also inaccurate, making this
test invalid and wasteful.

Researchers
test potential cancer treatments on animals, refuting the evidence that
animal data cannot be accurately applied to humans. Many drugs kill tumors
in animals without harming the animal; once released to the public, humans
either are unaffected by the drug, or harmed by it.

DANGERS IN GENERALIZING FROM ANIMAL TO HUMANAbsurdly,
researchers rely on animal data over human data. The animal-model approach
is practiced even when the chemical is already known to cause cancer in
humans, wasting tax dollars and precious time while people continue to
get cancer from that carcinogen. When a chemical is found to cause cancer
in humans, scientists run to their labs to duplicate this in animals.
Usually, the cause and effect relationship is not observed in the animals,
and the researchers conclude that the chemical is safe. This foolish system
has kept carcinogenic substances available to humans, providing us with
a false sense of security and our continued use of toxic substances.

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how researchers' reliance on animals has injured and killed humans.

REPLACING ANIMALS IN CANCER RESEARCH

The cancer research industry keeps coming out with new drugs and potential
cures, elevating peoples hopes and perpetuating the myth that they
will indeed find a cure. But time and again, hopes plummet, as the miracle
drugs and cures end up failing in humans.